Tales of Hope, Tastes of Bitterness

Tales of Hope, Tastes of BitternessChinas new globalism plays out as much in the lives of ordinary workers who shoulder the task of implementing infrastructure projects in the world as in the upper echelons of power. Through unprecedented ethnographic research among Chinese road builders in Ethiopia, Miriam Driessen finds that the hope of sharing Chinas success with developing countries soon turns into bitterness, as Chinese workers perceive a lack of support and appreciation from

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the prosecution of troubling and emerging crime problems

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direct-care staff

police corruption

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and a cultural focus on group pressures

Looks at mourning practices during the Han dynasty to reassess whether filial piety was the overriding model for society and governance in early China

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